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"...Whereas the rhythm guitar played a leading, dominant role on almost
every track from their debut, it’s void from the forefront here –
changing the conversation on The Virgins’ general forebears from,
roughly, INXS to Petty. If ever there were legitimate criticisms on The
Virgins as disco-dependent one-trick ponies, Strike Gently renders them
fallacious. “Wheel of Fortune” straddles a curious line between “Boys of
Summer” and surf rock revivalism, while “Figure on the Ice” and closer
“Blue Rose Tattoo” are a pair of slow-burners fit for night drives, mobs
of waving BIC lighters, or maybe beer tears. Strike Gently is also the
first official release on Cult Records, the label recently founded by
Julian Casablancas of The Strokes. It’s almost too obvious that a band
that kinda looks like The Strokes, sorta sounds like The Strokes, and is
currently making moves like The Strokes would get that nod, but don’t
typecast The Virgins just yet. Like Casablancas’, Cumming’s band was
thought dead not too long ago, yet here they are: at a point of
reinvention that offers them far more possible new directions than it
denies..." (Read More: http://consequenceofsound.net)

"...Perhaps the biggest surprise of all though is how classic it sounds, Cumming’s posturing sounding as if it’s been lifted straight from a forgotten vinyl covered in dust and suspicious stains. It’s Dire Straits teamed with louche New York cool – a combination that shouldn’t work, but totally does..." (http://www.nme.com)

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